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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Going to fast forward through years of service.....Life Pt. 3
I spent three years at Ft Stewart GA, spending most of my time either in the field or in the Mojave Desert at a place called Ft Irwin. I left Ft Stewart in Oct. 1993. My next duty station was Ft Lewis WA. Home for me. I gained my hard stripes there ( SGT stripes ) and left with an Army Commendation Medal en route to my next duty station. Mannheim GE, home of the 51st Trans Company, would be my next duty station. I began studying the language 3 months before actually getting there, and let me say....it helped. I arrived in GE, in Dec. of 1996. Cold...bitterly, but a great group of soldiers, and a mission when the roads thawed. Shortly after arriving, I became an Army Motor Vehicle Instructor, training soldiers in Europe how to drive the largest vehicles the Army had to offer....the M1074 P.L.S. and the M1070 H.E.T. aka "The super Het". Got to see a lot of Europe and made some great friends there. On veterans day, November 11th 1999, I left the Active Army. While I was deployed to Bosnia in 1997 and 1998, the rear support element had lost or misplaced my paperwork to become a linguist. I wanted that position and to continue my schooling, but they couldn't provide it. I spent a few months with a reserve Army unit, to complete my 8 year obligation. END PT 3
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